Open Invitation to Partner with SRNL

For many years, Savannah River National Laboratory (SRNL) focused its attention on the DOE cleanup mission for the nation. As DOE’s newest independent national laboratory, SRNL is broadening its efforts. While still supporting the environmental cleanup efforts, SRNL’s vision is to further develop and promote technology transfer with industry, organizations and agencies in additional areas that align with the Department of Energy’s broad mission. To enable this vision, SRNL hired Daren Timmons, former provost and executive vice chancellor for academic affairs at the University of South Carolina Aiken (USC Aiken), as director, Industrial and Strategic Partnerships.

During his seven years at USC Aiken, Timmons helped strengthen the university in a variety of areas by providing critical support and impactful leadership to enhance the university’s academic portfolio and industry connectivity. His role at SRNL is to work directly with SRNL staff, industrial partners and the Department of Energy (DOE) to identify SRNL innovations that advance the economic, energy and national security interests of the nation. He is working to identify potential partners, implement outreach activities and manage external engagements to accelerate the transition of SRNL innovations and technology into deployment by industry and eventually into the marketplace. Simply put, he’s working to find others to partner with SRNL to do, in his own words, “cool things.”

“We are eager to grow in the way we intersect and interact in the public sphere,” said Timmons. “We still have a significant mission to support the Savannah River Site, but we want to continue to grow our impacts both for the benefit of the public, our economic engines here in the U.S., and, perhaps, more broadly in the areas of national security and energy security.”